well, look, this is the president of his own party. they share a philosophical outlook on a policy agenda. mitch mcconnell wants to get things through the senate and congress and to the president s desk and signed. he has members up for reelection and the fighting and feuding isn t productive. he s done everything he can to kind of avoid this public rift that the president seems so intent on fostering with the senate republicans. he s not interested in a fight within the republican party. he said we ve nominated people in the past who were revolutionaries and didn t win. and if we follow down that path again, we re going to lose seats and the majority. his first priority is keeping that majority together and one way to keep the majority together is to get things through. the best way to get things through is to be on the same page. this week the senate is focusing on tax reform legislation, but yesterday president trump down played
i think at this point that we ve got to the aggressively pursue sound policies. we ve got to advocate those things we believe in that we think are vital to the future of the republic. do you think sarah palin is is problem pat tick for the republican party in the sense she says something like this and house republicans then have to respond to it and it ends up being the distraction you talked about? i ve met sarah palin a few times. i like her. she s entitled to say whatever she wants to say. my view would be at this point that would be pushing impeachment isn t productive. there s a big crisis at the border right now in texas. a humanitarian crisis. a lot of the people including a new memo that was just uncovered by breitbart suggests that one of the reasons, one of the major reasons why so many people from central america are coming here is because of the law that president bush signed into law in 2008 making it so people fleeing violence in central america would be treated
at night with no hope and no help for them or for their children. and you have yet to put on the table anything that would do something about that. you are now blaming everything that s wrong in america on obama care. that is demagoguery, sir. that is demagoguery. let me jump in. we can have that discussion all day long. and it s an important discussion. obama care is big and it s going to make an important difference. and we should be having continued discussions about it. what we should not be doing is shutting down the government of the united states, threatening the credit of the united states, in order to improve a bargaining position and basically force the united states into a hold hostage situation. that isn t helpful. that isn t productive. that is to use a phrase that republicans have used, the box canyon extremists have forced ourselves into. and when we solve that, as soon as the government s back operating, as soon as the debt limit is not threatened by extremism and we
the credit of the united states in order to improve a bargaining position and basically, force the united states into a hold hostage situation. that isn t helpful. that isn t productive. the boxed canyon. when we solve that, as soon as the government is back operating, as soon as the debt limit is not threatened by extremism and we can not have that shadow fall over our economy, we ll negotiate on everything. let me respond to both of those. first of all what you said is simply not true. i am a big support he of health care reform. i think we need to allow interstate competition, a national marketplace, to lower cost expanded availability and to make health care personal and portable and affordable. i am a huge pro opponent of that and have been talking about it a
responsible accountable and we need to reform the gsa. it s a very important agency for the federal government. just mined boggling to think that the guy [inaudible] for the last 11 month has been to hawaii, been to guam and all of these trips. that type of person, obviously, is not going to be cleaned up. we have to get rid of him and we will. this is outrageous. i have no doubt that it is hard to convince americans that their taxpayer dollars are spent wisely, even without this stuff. but when you see this, it just reinforces the understanding that so much of the money that we send to the federal government is used in ways that isn t productive. but worse than that, sometimes even criminal. after the gsa s luxurious vegas trip, you won t believe this video. uh-oh. senator harry reid, encouraging